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Possible Answers: DOS, MSDOS.
Last seen on: –Universal Crossword – Apr 14 2022 s
–LA Times Crossword 9 Feb 20, Sunday
–USA Today Crossword – Sep 22 2018
Random information on the term “DOS”:
4DOS is a command line interpreter by JP Software, designed to replace the default command interpreter COMMAND.COM in MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/SE/ME. 4OS2 and 4NT replace CMD.EXE in OS/2 and Windows NT respectively. 4DOS was written by Rex Conn and Tom Rawson; it was first released in 1989. These programs can also be initiated from the command line and/or called by scripts.
4DOS is most often used with the MS-DOS-Windows 95 stream of operating systems and it can be also used with Windows NT type machines, IBM PC DOS and also later DR DOS versions. Since Windows NT-2000 includes both COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE, 4DOS and 4NT and derivatives can both be installed. Earlier versions of 4OS2 can be run under Windows NT, and OS/2 can run the two MS-DOS and Windows NT shells, all three can be used on Windows NT-type machines and OS/2 multiple boot machines.
Among the many commands, statements and functions in 4DOS and lacking in MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 COMMAND.COM are reading keyboard input and a simpler method of working with colors of screen and text.
Random information on the term “MSDOS”:
MS-DOS 4.0 was a multitasking release of MS-DOS developed by Microsoft based on MS-DOS 2.0. Lack of interest from OEMs, particularly IBM, led to it being released only in a scaled-back form. It is sometimes referred to as European MS-DOS 4.0, as it was primarily used there. It should not be confused with PC DOS 4.00 or MS-DOS 4.01 and later, which did not contain the multi-tasking features.
Apricot Computers pre-announced “MS-DOS 4.0” in early 1986, and Microsoft demonstrated it in September of that year at a Paris trade show. However, only a few European OEMs, such as SMT Goupil (fr) and International Computers Limited (ICL), actually licensed releases of the software. In particular, IBM declined the product, concentrating instead on improvements to MS-DOS 3.x and their new joint development with Microsoft to produce OS/2.
As a result, the project was scaled back, and only those features promised to particular OEMs were delivered. In September 1987, a version of multi-tasking MS-DOS 4.1 was reported to be developed for the ICL DRS Professional Workstation (PWS). No further releases were made once the contracts had been fulfilled.